Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:24:04 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1043515445.f02921@mired.org> To: "Jeff D. Hamann" <jeff_hamann@hamanndonald.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: best method to upgrade 4.4 to latest? Message-ID: <15916.12468.427402.171212@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <001301c2c0a3$0b5f9190$0400a8c0@toastman> References: <001301c2c0a3$0b5f9190$0400a8c0@toastman>
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In <001301c2c0a3$0b5f9190$0400a8c0@toastman>, Jeff D. Hamann <jeff_hamann@hamanndonald.com> typed: > I'd like to upgrade my system and I have a nervousness about the process. I > would like to upgrade my XFree86, samba, smbfs_mount, Qt, GRASS, etc and > have been trying to do this by cvsup and upgrading one at a time. Is it > better to simply upgrade the entire system to the latest and greatest or > upgrade one at a time? I currently have 4.4 and don't know if 4.7 or 5.0 > would be better. The machine is my company server and if anything goes > wrong, I'd be dead meat, which I'd rather avoid. The best way is probably a single upgrade. Go from 4.4->4.7. Don't go to 5.0. If all the tools you have are ports, installs the portupgrade port, then do a "portupgrade -af" to force an upgrade of all the ports. If you've installed things that aren't ports, you'll probably want to recompile those if they can be compiled. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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